President John F. Kennedy Meets with Ambassador of Dahomey Louis Ignacio-Pinto
Abbie Rowe. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston (AR6519-A public domain photo)
Part 1 can be found here: https://consaracytheories.com/f/with-friends-like-these-part-1
Sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll . . .
If painting JFK as a murderer and a sexual compulsive doesn't do the trick, well, how's about we paint him as a drughead? Will y'all hate him then?
On March 13th, I released "Episode 8: JFK - Jay Weidner's Documentary" to talk about the bizarre documentary JFK X where Weidner theorizes that JFK faked his own death and ran off to be with Mary Pinchot Meyer in Greece. And yes: all of this is laughably soap operatic. In "With Friends Like These... Part 1," I talked about James DiEugenio's discussion of Meyer and the alleged sex diary, the hunt for which sounds like an episode from Scooby Doo. Where did all of this come from anyway?
"As noted earlier, Jim Truitt gave this curious tale its first public airing in 1976, on the heels of the Church Committee. From there, the Washington Post (under [Ben] Bradlee) picked it up. There had been an apparent falling out between Truitt and Bradlee and Truitt said that he wanted to show that Bradlee was not the crusader for truth that Watergate or his book on Kennedy had made him out to be. In the National Enquirer, Truitt stated that Mary had revealed her affair with Kennedy while she was alive to he and his wife. He then went further. In one of their romps in the White House, Mary had offered Kennedy a couple of marijuana joints, but coke-sniffer Kennedy said, 'This isn't like cocaine. I'll get you some of that.'"
-James DiEugenio, "The Posthumous Assassination of John F. Kennedy"
Your marijuana is so blasé. Let me turn you into a cokehead!
Let's take a second to trace this journey so far. Would you believe that Kennedy deserved to get murdered in broad daylight because he was greenlighting political murders himself? Would you believe he was having sex with a mobster's girlfriend and JFK and his brother were asking the woman to carry messages back and forth to the mafia? Would you believe she got pregnant and JFK asked the mob to arrange a back-alley abortion? Would you believe he was having sex with Mary Pinchot Meyer? Would you believe that she kept a secret sex diary (but apparently not-so-secret) and the unnamed man in the diary was Jack? Would you believe the search for said diary caused a wacky adventure after her death? Would you believe the participants even held a seance to contact her like something from Dark Shadows?
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No? OK, no worries. Would you believe he was a coke-pedaling junkie?
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Still not blasphemous enough? Alright, how about we say that JFK didn't want nuclear annihilation because he was dropping acid and having visions. Would you believe us then?
"The chemical addition to the story was later picked up by drug guru Tim Leary in his book Flashbacks. Exner-like, the angle grew appendages. Leary went beyond grass and cocaine. According to Leary, Mary Meyer was consulting with him about how to conduct acid sessions and how to get psychedelic drugs in 1962. Leary met her on several occasions and she said that she and a small circle of friends had turned on several times. She also had one other friend who was 'a very important man' who she also wanted to turn on. After Kennedy's assassination, Mary called Leary and met with him. She was cryptic but she did say, 'They couldn't control him anymore. He was changing too fast. He was learning too much.' The implication being that a 'turned on' JFK was behind the moves toward peace in 1963. Leary learned about Meyer's murder in 1965, but did not pull it all together until the 1976 Jim Truitt disclosure. With Leary, the end (for now) of the Meyer story colors in JFK as the total sixties swinger: pot, coke, acid, women, and unbeknownst to Kennedy, Leary has fulfilled his own fantasy by being Kennedy's guide on his magical mystery tour toward peace."
-DiEugenio, Ibid.
"From here, DiEugenio weaves together a connection between the Mary Pinchot Meyer story and Bradlee. There are conspiracy theorists who believe that JFK pursued peace because he was sleeping with Meyer, who was a pacifist, and the two were dropping acid and having out-of-body experiences. (!) That seems like a derogatory way of looking at his legacy, but it hits three birds with one stone: JFK the rampant adulterer, JFK the drughead, and JFK the brainless twit with no real anti-war ideology of his own."
-https://consaracytheories.com/f/with-friends-like-these-part-1
"mainstream narrative - forced to act, didn't want to, not really committed, did it because he thought he had to"
-There I am referring to the mainstream narrative that JFK was slow to act on civil rights and didn't really want to, https://consaracytheories.com/f/the-biggest-myth
"'He was a morally fraught person,' says [Michel] Gagné. 'One big criticism is that a lot of his decisions were made with his eye on opinion polls. He did not have a deep ideology.'"
-https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/oliver-stones-jfk-greatest-lie-hollywood-ever-told/ emphasis mine
Look, the guy was a himbo. Rich and attractive but fairly brainless and morally bankrupt. He goes from warhawk to peacemaker because he was high out of his gourd on LSD. Hell, he probably thought space aliens or little gremlins were telling him not to blow up the world. 😖 Never mind that JFK was, himself, a war veteran with combat injuries. Never mind that Jack wrote "All war is stupid" from his PT boat and, on the occasion of Dag Hammarskjöld's death, he told the UN, "The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us" and he pushed for disarmament. Never mind that his older brother died in the war. Nope, JFK must have been anti-war from dropping LSD tabs.
"Leary did not mention Mary in any of his books until Flashbacks in 1983, more than two decades after he met Mary. It's not like he did not have the opportunity to do so. Leary was one of the most prolific authors I know. He got almost anything he wanted published. Although it is hard to keep track of all his work, he appears to have published over 40 books. Of those, at least 25 were published between 1962, when he says he met Mary, and 1983, when he first mentions her. Some of these books are month to month chronicles e.g. High Priest. In none of the books I could find, i.e. most of them, is Mary mentioned or even vaguely described. This is improbable considering the vivid, unforgettable portrait that Leary drew in 1983. This striking looking woman walks in unannounced, mentions her powerful friends in Washington, and later starts dumping out the CIA's secret operations to control American elections to him. Leary, who mentioned many of those he turned on throughout his books, and thanks those who believed in him, deemed this unimportant. That is until the 20th anniversary of JFK's death. (Which is when Rosenbaum wrote his ugly satire on the Kennedy research community for Texas Monthly which in turn got him a guest spot on Nightline.) This is also when Leary began hooking up with Gordon Liddy, doing carnival-type debates across college campuses, an act which managed to rehabilitate both of them and put them both back in the public eye."
-DiEugenio, Ibid. emphasis mine
Supposedly, Timothy Leary sits on this story about Mary Pinchot Meyer and her alleged acid trips with JFK for a couple of decades and decides the 20th anniversary of the man's murder is the perfect time to go for gold. He also hangs out with G. Gordon Liddy and goes on a college debate tour. This all seems rather odd, doesn't it?
"There is another problem with Leary's book: the Phil Graham anecdote. In his book, Leary has Mary tell him that the cat was out the bag as far as her and JFK were concerned. The reason was that a well-known friend of hers had blabbed about them in public. This is an apparent reference to Post owner Phil Graham's outburst at a convention in Phoenix, Arizona in 1963. This famous incident (which preceded his later alleged mental breakdown) included – according to Leary– a reference to Kennedy and Mary Meyer. The story of Graham's attendance at this convention and what he did and said has been described in different ways in different books. Unfortunately for Leary, his dating of the convention does not jibe with any that I have seen. In 1986, Tony Chaitkin tracked down the correct date, time, and place of the meeting. No one had done it correctly up to that time. But Chaitkin and his associates went one step further. They interviewed people who were there. None of the attendees recalled anything said about Mary Meyer. To me, this apocryphal anecdote and Leary's book seem ways to bolster a tale that needed to be recycled and souped up before its chinks began to show. Leary's reason for being a part of the effort may be through his association with intelligence asset Liddy. Or it may be because he was never enamored of the Kennedys' approach to the drug problem, which was antagonistic to Leary personally and a lot less liberal in its approach. Leary was quite frank about this in his book High Priest (p. 67) and later in Changing My Mind (pp. 143 ff.). Whatever his motives, Leary's retroactive endorsement is just not credible."
-DiEugenio, Ibid. emphasis mine
In his obituary, the LA Times described Liddy as the "unrepentant Watergate burglar who became a talk show host."
What a world. The whole lot of it - Leary and Liddy becoming debate buddies, Liddy going from Watergate burglar to talk show host. An alleged mental breakdown preceded by an outburst where the witnesses say Mary wasn't even mentioned. A supposed sex diary that no one seems to agree on. Oh, and conveniently, it comes out on the 20th anniversary of Kennedy's murder to make him sound like an all-out asshole.
"In fact, when it comes to Mary Meyer, stories between the same couple are not consistent. As mentioned previously, Bradlee states in his book that Kennedy's name was not in the diary. Yet his wife told The National Enquirer, that although she only looked at it briefly, Kennedy's name was there. According to an interview with writer Debbie Davis, Ben Bradlee once told television personality David Frost that the diary was not even a diary but in fact a sketchbook."
-DiEugenio, Ibid
When you remember the truth, you don't have to struggle with details and changing narratives. Just sayin'. All the discrepancies don't give me a high level of confidence in these stories.
"In this regard, Tony Bradlee made a telling comment to the National Enquirer in 1976. In the notes written up from her interview, after she has discussed (with a bit of ambiguity) whether or not Kennedy's name was in the diary, she is quoted as saying: 'But the diary was destroyed. I'll tell you that much is true.' The suggestion in the last sentence is that everything else is not. Or, at least, the diary's destruction is all she knows for a fact."
-DiEugenio, Ibid.
If I found some XXX diary where a President was named as a participant and a drughead, I'd be scared shitless that my life would be in danger. I wouldn't be out in the media blabbing about it. Again, just sayin'. I wouldn't even want to be involved in lying about such a thing for fear that I'd be targeted as a problem that needed elimination. So why these people are so loose-lipped is pretty strange to me.
Unless the whole purpose of the drama is that it's designed to cause maximum damage to its subject. In that case, you can make any spurious accusations you want and, as long as they besmirch the target's character, you're good.
More to come . . .
This content was published concurrently at https://consaracytheories.com/f/with-friends-like-these-part-2 on May 5, 2024. Older blog posts can be found at: https://consaracytheories.com/blog.